Dr Leon Wainwright   BA (UEA) MA PhD (SOAS)

Senior Lecturer - History of Art and Design

Telephone : 0161 247 1939
Email : l.wainwright@mmu.ac.uk

Office : Righton Building / Room 105

My research explores art and visual culture in Britain and the Americas since the 19th century, with an emphasis on migration, global networks of cultural transmission (in particular shared, trans-Atlantic histories), and phenomenological approaches to historicising cultural knowledge.

Current activities

MMU Principal Investigator, Individual Project 004, ‘Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement’, funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area, Joint Research Programme (HERA JRP, European Science Foundation).
This is a three-year Collaborative Research Project with Queen’s University, Belfast; Free University, Amsterdam; University of Oslo; and the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, commencing in 2010.

My book 'Timed Out: Art and Transnational Caribbean', will be published by Manchester University Press in 2010.

I am co-editing, with Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, a new volume in the Blackwell series 'Art in Theory: An Anthology of Changing Ideas'.

I am also at work on a second monograph, which relates to an assembled community of artists in contemporary Britain.

Background

In 2005 I joined MMU as Lecturer and, in 2006, Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Design. Previously, I was Research Fellow in Visual Culture and Media at Middlesex University (2000-2002) on the curriculum change project, GLAADH (www.glaadh.ac.uk) and Lecturer in Art History at the University of Sussex (2002-4). During 2004-5 I completed long-term fieldwork on issues around art and agency in Trinidad, Guyana and other locations in the Caribbean, with support from The Leverhulme Trust (Early Career Fellowship) and Sussex.

Qualifications

PhD History of Art, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
MA Archaeology, SOAS
BA (Hons) History of Art and Architecture, University of East Anglia

External roles

External Curator, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool,
with Reyahn King, Director of Art Galleries, National Museums Liverpool) of 'Aubrey Williams: Atlantic Fire'. This is the first nationally funded major retrospective exhibition of the Guyana-born painter. Runs until April 2010. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/aubrey/

Visiting Fellow, Yale Center for British Art

Visiting Scholar, Arts Research Center and Department of Art History, University of California Berkeley

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, (Routledge, Taylor and Francis)

Member of the review group for the subject benchmark statement for History of Art, Architecture and Design, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
(QAA)

Member of the Peer Review College of The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK

Peer reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Peer reviewer for numerous academic journals


My administrative office at MMU is Admissions Tutor for BA (Hons) History of Art and Design.